Garment.



BENJ'IN J. LAVIGN,

OF NEW YORK, N; Y.

GARMENT.

application mea December 23, 191s. serial N6. casas.

To all lwhom it may concern:

Be it known hat I, BENJAMIN .I. LAVIGN, a citizen of the United States, and a resi dent of New York, in the borough of Bronx, county of Bronx, and State` of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garments, of which the folowing is a specication.

My invention relates to garments for girls and the main object thereof is to provide a pair of bloomers, such as are worn .1n mnasiums, which is instantly convertible into a skirt of conventional appearance.

In gymnasiums girls are required to wear bloomers and it is now necessary for a girl to change Afrom a street skirt to bloomers and back again before and after exercises or drills, and 1t was in order to avoid this necessity that my garment wasl deslgned, as

well as the present necessity for a girl to carry her bloomers to and from the gymnasium where no locker facilities are provided,

as in public schools.

My invention is fully described in the following specication, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, m which like characters refer to like parts 1n each' draw-string arrangement, said leg not being changed from normal skirt position; n

Fi 4: is a section taken on the line 4.-4 of Fig. 3 and showin a step in the converting from normal s 'rt to bloomer con-V ditions;

Fig. 5 is an enlargedv fragment of Fig. 2 but with the parts in a released or detached condition, ready for converting into either normal skirt or bloomer conditions; and

Fig. 6 is a reduced front view of the garment when used as bloomers.

My invention consists primarily in a pair of bloomers 7 having leg ortions 8 and 9, a belt or waist-band 10, andjsuspenders 11 in Specification of Letters Patent.

section taken bn the Patented than detachable connection with the bloomers in the Iform shown, but which may be in ermanent connection or may not be use at all as this forms no part of the invention.

e wlwa The leg portion 8 is provided with a flap 8a extending from the crotch of the bloomers to the knee-band and provided with lspaced buttons 8", and the leg portion 9 is similarly provided with a complemental flap 9hl having button-holes 9b, for the reception of the buttons 8", but these may be replaced by fasteners of any desired form, such as glove fasteners, hooks'and eyes, etc.

The flaps 8'* and ,9a-are shown only at the front of the garment, but they may be at the rear if deslred or at both front and rear, itbeing the result of my experience that their location at the front is most conven ient for the wearer.

Each leg portion is provided with a band formed by a hem to provide a pocket 12 for a drawstring or ribbon 13 of sufficient length to allow full expansion of the leg band, the bottoms of the legs being formed of more material circumferentially than with conventional garments of the bloomer type.

These leg bands may be made in any desired manner but I have shown a preferred form which is especially'well adapted to the dual use of the garment, the ribbon 13 being passed through slots 14 and 15 in the inner side of the leg-band to enable the wearer of the garment to readily gras the ribbon 13, and I also provide a buc e 16 on the ribbon 13 which is capable of rei Aceiving a doubled loop of the said ribbon.

On the way to and from the gymnasium the aps 8a and 9 are secured together and the leg bands extended to their limits, and

the garment presents a conventional skirt appearance, particularly if the garment is vertically plaited as shown, but I do not confinemmyselt` to the particular style "of the I of the material of each leg portion in tightening the drawstrings.

- ends being possible and the spare ribbon being within the respective leg portion.

Asirwwill be seen from the oregoing, my garment may be instantly converted into either conventional skirt appearance or into bloomers, and, while I have shown a convenient means for accomplishing this result, I do not limit m self to these particu-l lar means but may epart therefrom provided that the chan es. come within the serge of the a pende claim.

aving y described my invention,

what I claim as new,` and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

'A pair of bloomers the bottoms of the legs of which are extensible to a relatively great degree, endless draw-ribbons in the bottom of each leg, a buckle for each drawribbon adapted to lock therein a fold of the ribbon caused by the drawing of the bottom of ltheleg, and means for detachably joining said legs when extended to convert the bloomers into a skirt of normal appearance.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

BENJAMIN J. LAVIGN.

Witnesses:

J. C. LARsEN, G. H. EMSLIE. 

